I never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing.
Chuck CloseRead
A photograph doesn't gain weight or lose weight, or change from being happy to being sad. It's frozen. You can use it, then recycle it.
Interpretation
Photographs capture moments in time that remain unchanged, allowing for reflection and reuse.
Chuck Close's quote suggests that photographs serve as immutable records of moments in time, preserving feelings and memories in their original state. Unlike people or experiences that can change or evolve, a photograph remains a static representation, providing a reliable medium to revisit our past emotions and experiences whenever needed.
In practice
During a presentation on the impact of photography in art, one could use this quote to emphasize the static nature of images.
I never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing.
The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody whoβll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work.
Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack of facial recognition, which I'm sure is what drove me to paint portraits in the first place.
Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work.
Losing my father at a tender age was extremely important in being able to accept what happened to me later when I became a quadriplegic.
All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.
Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players. ... I have 10 or so, and thats a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.
To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
I don't think the goal is, 'How big a star did you ever become?' I think the goal is, 'Were you able to express yourself?' And if you're able to say yes, in any field, you've won. If you paint, write, do mosaics, knit - if it's solving that part of your brain saying, 'I need to do this,' you've won.
I think all directors should be animators.
To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today, when human contacts are so quick. Fashion is instant language.
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